I know, I know – the phrase has been done to death (likewise the phrase ‘done to death’), but it does make for shorthand – less explaining to get people up to speed (assuming of course no more explanations like this).

Day two of my blog: WordPress is running nicely; I’ve even been ‘noticed’ – by spammers. With 30 advertising ‘comments’ overnight, I knew I’d arrived in blogstown for real.

Handling them is easy – check both boxes under the setting ‘Options/Discussion/Before a comment appears’ – you can filter before posting, so they don’t get onto the page first.

Of course, there’s still the problem of handling 30+ spams a day, and I’m investigating that – stay tuned.

One more thing – if you use WordPress, be careful where you delete – what I thought was the first spam entry was actually the main article – so I had to retype the whole thing from memory (the extra writing and editing only enhanced it, but I may be biased). A ‘are you sure you want to ruin your day by deleting this’ button would’ve been nice.